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The Courier-Journal

Three rebuttal witnesses were called by the prosecution Tuesday in David Camm’s third murder trial:

Norah Rudin — A private DNA consultant based in Mountain View, Calif., she testified that conclusions reached by “touch DNA” analyst Richard Eikelenboom were inherently flawed because his validation studies were insufficient. Rudin said that she found several problems with Eikelenboom‘s statistical analysis of DNA found on Jill Camm’s shirt.

The highly technical testimony dealt with how scientists test and re-test their results to ensure its reliability. At one point, Rudin said that tests on a cutting from Jill’s shirt showed that at least 11 people had touched it.

Dianna Borden — A court reporter on Floyd Superior Judge Susan Orth’s staff, she said she’d been in the same position in 2002 when the first trial was held before former Judge Richard Striegel. Her testimony centered on potential contamination because she said that she laid out articles of clothing on tables in the jury room and the courtroom in New Albany for jurors to view the items.

To create a photographic record to go in the trial transcript, Borden said, she laid some of the items on the carpeted floor to snap the pictures. Under questioning by Special Prosecutor Todd Meyer, she said that she didn’t change gloves as she handled one item, then the next.

Ben Gerrian — The store manager of an AT&T store in northern Indianapolis, he testified that cell phone records from the day of the Camm murders in September 2000 showed that someone at a 941 phone number in Floyd County had placed a call to Kim Camm’s cell phone at 7:50 p.m. on the night she and her two children were slain.

The testimony appeared to be an effort by the prosecution to clear up confusion over the cell phone records, which “invert” information on call logs to make it appear that outgoing calls are incoming calls and vice versa. Gerrian said a code of 02 beside the call showed that it was an incoming call. It wasn’t answered and the call was routed to her voice mail box, Gerrian said.